Faith

Insufficiency is nothing but the loss of perspective. In retrospect, everything is deducible as happening for good. However during the tough times, the conviction based on just the memory or a reasonable understanding doesn't work. The other side of the story, which would balance out the good and bad, disappears and what remains is just despair. On the other hand, during apparently good times, one doesn't want to look and consider the not so apparent negative side of the story. Faith is the remembrance of the unknown absolute and a conviction that there is a space that is the background of the happenings in life. Faith is something that even if you are currently identifying yourself as the happenings in your life, you have a conviction that there is a something which exists which transcends the duality of the mind. Its a conviction that the virtues of compassion, love, kindness are not to be cultivated or forced,  but in fact are spontaneous occurrences when you will have transcended the land of should and should not. Faith is a happening in which the mind accepts itself as being blind and incapable of perceiving the absolute, it does not know anything beyond itself yet surrenders itself to extinction.